Dave Burke : Freelance .NET Web Developer specializing in Online Communities

Seth Godin’s Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us is 5-star material. I loved it. I’m giving Tribes the highest Nordic Track rating in spite of the fact that it’s only 140 pages. I’ve purchased and read almost every book Godin has ever written, but I don’t like the fact that his books seem to be getting ... [More]

Future Perfect by Stan Davis is an insightful work originally published in 1996 describing a more productive way to look at time, product development, and the role of information in the product lifecycle. 4-out-of-5 Nordic Track Stars. ---------------------- p.12 Informationalized business means th... [More]

Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance by Larry Downes and Chunka Mui was published in March of 1998, yet I was surprised by the many forward-thinking concepts that I continue to see in much more recent marketing and product development books. Not a lot of concrete instru... [More]

I enjoyed this book a lot. Get Slightly Famous: Become a Celebrity in Your Field and Attract More Business with Less Effort by Steven Van Yoder presented a practical approach on how to grow your business.  The key to "Slightly Famous" success as described by Yoder is to establish a niche specia... [More]

Life is all about balance (so I'm told), which is why I'm following the review of a great book like Hot, Flat, and Crowded with one that in my opinion is not so great, Future, Inc.: How Businesses Can Anticipate and Profit from What's Next. The book was written to instruct business owners how to per... [More]

If you know me at all through my blog you'll already know that I think Thomas Friedman's Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America is a very important work that every American and freedom-loving Capitalist should read.  The main reason I think the book... [More]

The Wellness Revolution by Paul Pilzner is a light-weight read with a few interesting ideas to support the book's premise that we're on the verge of a huge focus on wellness.  The full title is "The New Wellness Revolution: How to Make a Fortune in the Next Trillion Dollar Industry." I enjoyed ... [More]

I was looking forward to reading Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything after skimming through it at our local Barnes and Noble. Authors Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams wrote about the new collaborative Web and how businesses can benefit from tapping into that collaborative creation... [More]

David Kline and Dan Burstein are the authors of Blog!: How the Newest Media Revolution is Changing Politics, Business, and Culture. They were more like editors, since the book was a collection of interviews of blogging inflentials in politics, business and media. If you skip past the politics sectio... [More]

Hyperwars: Strategies for Survival and Profit in the Era of On-line Business by Bruce Judson was written in the heyday of 1999, when the web was still new and the sky was the limit.  It certainly reads like a 1999 book, but that's not necessarily bad.  The more simple wisdom of that era is... [More]